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Article on this Page: Species List for the Woods Lake Watershed compiled by Wolf Camp staff.
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• Index of Journey Intros on Study Sites, Hazards, Awareness, Journaling & Sketching, Tracking, Birding & Plants by Chris Chisholm.
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• Woods Lake Species List by Wolf Camp staff.
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Species List for the Woods Lake Watershed

Compiled by Wolf Camp Staff

Birds

Double-Crested Cormorant
Canada Goose (daily visitors)
Mallard (nesting in pond and near dock in lake)
Wood Duck (nesting near pond)
Hooded Merganser (nesting near dock)
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Virginia Rail (nesting near dock)
Ruffed Grouse (various nesting)
Band-Tailed Pidgeon
Vaux's Swift (severak pair nesting in muskeg trees)
Tree Swallows (several pair nesting in muskeg)
Willow Flycatcher
Olive Sided Flycatcher (heard one season)
Western or Pacific Slope Flycatcher (seasonal resident)
Townsend Solitaire (center camp circle)
Rufus Hummingbird (nesting in hemlock over pond)
Red Shafted Flicker (daily visitor)
Piliated Woodpecker (resident)
Sapsucker (vars. red breasted resident, and red naped sighted)
Hairy Woodpecker (resident)
Downy Woodpecker (resident)
Raven (daily visitors)
Crow (daily visitors)
Mountain Chickadee (nesting)
Song Sparrow (nesting pairs)
Oregon Junco (nesting pairs)
Red Breasted Nuthatch (heard regularly)
Brown Creeper (seen in NW area)
Winter Wren (resident)
Golden Crowned Kinglet (resident)
Goldfinch (seasonal nesting visitor to feeder)
Finches (house, purple, or cassins at feeder and nesting)
Red Crossbill (various listenings)
Spotted Towhee (nesting)
American Robin (nesting around lawns)
Stellar Jay (nesting)
Cow Bird (seasonal visitor to feeder)
Varied Thrush (seasonal spring and fall)
Swainsons Thrush (summer nesting)
Black-Headed Grosbeak (summer nesting)
Western Tanager (summer nesting)
Townsend Warbler (summer resident)
Wilsons Warbler (summer in willow thickets)
Common Yellowthroat (resident in spirea and willow around lake)
Cedar Waxwing (summer resident in muskeg trees)
Red Wing Blackbird (nesting near dock)

Merlin (periodic visitor)
Osprey (regular visitor)
Bald Eagle (periodic visitor)
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture (one pair sighted)
Coopers Hawk (periodic pair)
Sharp Shinned Hawk (periodic pair)
Red Tailed Hawk (periodic visitor)
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Saw-Whet Owl (resident across lake outflow)
Common Nighthawk (night lake flyovers, clearcut nesting)
Kingfisher
California Quail (clearcut)
Catbird (new resident of boggy wetlands at boat landing)

Mammals

Opossum
Long-Tailed Shrew (probably wandering and/or trowbridge, and , dusky and/or marsh)
Townsend Mole
Mouse-Eared Bats (probably little brown, yuma, and long-eared)
Big Brown Bat
Hoary Bat
Aplodontia (mountain beaver)
Townsend Chipmonk
Chickaree (douglas red squirrel)
Northern Flying Squirrel
North American Beaver (resident in lodge 200 feet to the north of dock)
Deer Mouse
Bushy-Tailed Woodrat (one sighting)
Voles (probably townsend and creeping)
Muskrat
Pacific Jumping Mouse (one sighting)
Porcupine (one sighting)
Snowshoe Hare
Raccoon
Short Tail Weasel (den under house)
Long Tail Weasel (den on 10 acres)
Mink (resident)
Roosevelt Elk (clearcut)
Black Tailed Deer (resident)
Bobcat (resident, daily tracks, kill sitees)
Red Fox (regular visitor, chicken menace)
Coyote (resident families all over)
Black Bear (many seasonal residents)
Cougar (regular visitor, scat sites)

Amphibians

Pacific Chorus Tree Frog
Red Legged Frog
Cascades Frog
Tailed Frog
Bullfrog
Western Toad
Northwestern Salamander
Pacific Giant Salamander
Western Redback Salamander
Roughskin Newt

Reptiles

Garter Snake (vars. red racer, blue stripe, common yellow)
Lizard (sp. alligator maybe)

Fishes, Etc.

Westslope Cutthroat Trout (native, live at 20-25 feet throughout lake)
Rainbow Trout (introduced pre-1980, live at 5-15 feet down / off shore)
Large Mouth Bass (introduced pre-1980, live at 5- feet around lake edges)
Catfish (miniatures only caught)
Crawfish

Muskeg Bog Plant & Tree Species

Shore Pine (old growth)
Black Spruce (old growth)
Pacific Crabapple
Round-Leafed Sundew (and possibly great sundew)
Bog Cranberry
Highbush Cranberry
Sweet Gale
Labrador Tea
Bog Laurel
Crowberry
Yellow Pond Lily
Watershield
Cattail
Bog Blueberry (east side of Woods Lake in state land)
Dwarf Blueberry (east side of Woods Lake in state land)

Upland Plant & Tree Species

Pink Spirea (hardhack)
Skunk Cabbage
Smartweed (in pond)
Pondweed (unknown sp. in pond)
Fragrant Waterlily (in pond)
Twin Berry (in wetlands on left along trail to lake)
Twinflower (east side of Woods Lake in state land)
Black Twin Bearberry (east side of Woods Lake in state land)
Various Buttercup
Various Rushes
Various Sedges
Various Grasses

Lodgepole Pine (old growth)
Sitka Spruce (legacy)
Western Hemlock (legacy)
Western Red Cedar
Douglas Fir
Red Alder
Sitka Alder
Black Cottonwood
Black Walnut (three planted)
Paper Birch (one)
Bitter Cherry (one)
Oregon White Oak (planted)
Beaked Hazel
Sitka Mountain Ash (rowan)
Bigleaf Maple
Vine Maple
Cascara Sagrada
Pacific Flowering Dogwood

Red Osier Dogwood (red twig willow)
Hookers Willow
Pacific Willow
Scoulers Willow
Sitka Willow
Red Osier Dogwood
Devil's Club
Pacific Ninebark
Indian Plum
Snowberry
Red Elderberry
Saskatoon (service berry, planted)
Rose (baldhip and nootka planted)
Black Hawnthorn (planted)
Pacific Rhododendron
Ocean Spray (iron wood on side of woods lake road)


Two ribes species (current family, one 100' from dock on south side of trail, one under cedar on east side of trail going to NW corner before reaching Max Davis Creek, need to be identified)
Black Gooseberry (planted)
Red Flowering Currant (planted)
Saskatoon Service Berry (planted)
Mock Orange (planted)
Salal
Dull Oregon Grape
Creeping Raspberry
Trailing Blackberry
Himalayan & European Blackberry (few, invasive)
Thimbleberry
Blackcap Rasberry
Salmonberry
Red Huckleberry
Oval-Leaved Blueberry
Alaska Blueberry

False Lily of the Valley
False Solomon Seal
Western Trillium
Western Coralroot
Large Leaf Avens
Foxglove
Stinging Nettle (one natural community, one introduced group)
English Ivy (contained, invasive)
Knotweed (contained, invasive)
Mullein (planted)
Honeysuckle (planted)
Blue Flower Camus (planted)
Chocolate Lily (planted)
Wild Carrot (planted)
Fireweed
Wild Strawberry (driveway)
Yarrow (transplanted)
Oxeye Daisy (driveway)
Nodding Beggarticks (edge of lawn/pond)
Clover (red and white)
Evening Primrose (unknown sp. around house)
Water Hemlock (poisonous, very few by pond)
Curly Dock (lawn)
Chickweed (garden)
Lance Leaf Plantain (lawn)
Brad Leaf Plantain (garden)
Vetch (unknown sp., garden)
field Mint (planted)
Heal All (garden)
Dandelion (lawn)
Hairy Cat's Ear (lawn)
Thistle (canada and edible, garden)
Lambs Quarters (garden)
Wall Lettuce (driveway)
Borage (unknown sp., planted)

Vanilla Leaf (one patch found off Woods Lake Road clearcut)
Hookers Fairybells (one sighting in mature surrounding state forest)
Mountain Ladyslipper (one sighting in mature surrounding state forest)
Fringecup (one sighting in mature surrounding state forest)
Goats Beard (one sighting in mature surrounding state forest)
Violet (unknown sp., var. sightings in surrounding forests, wetlands)
Cow Parsnip (along Woods Lake road)
Pearly Everlasting (surrounding clearcut roads)
Pacific Bleading Heart (surrounding state forests)
Wild Ginger (one sighting in state forest)
Starflower (unknown sp., sightings in surrounding state forests)
Miners Lettuce (various in state lands)

Bracken Fern
Deer Fern
Sword Fern
Licorice Fern
Lady Fern (state forests)
Maidenhair Fern (state forests)
Common Horsetail
Scouring Rush
Various Lichens
Various Liverworts
Various True Mosses
Various Peat Mosses

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